Rapidshare Loses File Sharing Suit, Fined $34 Million

[DJGaurav]

Rapidshare Loses File Sharing Suit, Fined $34 Million

First it was Pirate Bay, now it's Rapidshare. Mashable is reporting that a German court has ordered the file-hosting site to pay $34 million to German performance rights group Gesellschaft f?r musikalische Auff?hrungs- und mechanische Vervielf?ltigungsrechte (GEMA). Like the Pirate Bay case, the judgment is dubious since Rapidshare merely hosts files; it doesn't discriminate the types of files it hosts or what users are doing with them. If you follow the German court's logic (which claims that Rapidshare makes illegal file-sharing easy), then copyright owners should be suing Google for making content available through its Web search engine. Expect to see this judgment, and Pirate Bay's, appealed in the European courts.

[From: Mashable]

DJGaurav Reviewed by DJGaurav on 2nd Aug 2009. Rapidshare Loses File Sharing Suit, Fined $34 Million Rapidshare Loses File Sharing Suit, Fined $34 Million First it was Pirate Bay, now it's Rapidshare. Mashable is reporting that a German court has ordered the file-hosting site to pay $34 million to German performance rights group Gesellschaft f?r musikalische Auff?hrungs- und mechanische Vervielf?ltigungsrechte (GEMA). Like the Pirate Bay case, the judgment is dubious since Rapidshare merely hosts files; it doesn't discriminate the types of files it hosts or what users are doing with them. Rating: 5

[Dotcom]

i agree with the end statement, google, and in my opinon, youtube could be sued then if theyre going to go by that. using a simple greasemonkey script you can download any youtube flv mp4 or even an mp3 file also using google and different search terms you can target your search to mp3 files or ftps with whatever your searching for.

this shit is getting ugly

regards,
dot

[Mac]

Can't wait to see who's next

[DJGaurav]

Dotcom is Right

[Chri5]

the end statement is right.
Maybe i'll start up a band, upload it and sue google for finding it

[Viz0n]

There is still a big difference between linking and hosting files... but either way, things are about to start changing, real fast.

[StarTech]

Corporate World will get TorrentEmpires and Warezempires on theyre knees.